Posted on 03/22/2003 9:04:13 AM PST by churchillbuff
When Time magazine ran excerpts from the video that Harris and Klebold made about their gruesome murderous plans, Time didn't include their rantings against Jesus, Christianity and some specific students for being Christians. It was only after the father of murdered student Rachel Scott, got a look at the video that he told the world about the vicious anti-Christian statements made by Harris and Klebold.
But still, the media ignores the anti-Christian hate-crime angle. Why? Next month is the fourth anniversary of the massacre. When will the truth be told?
Reports Christianity Today: ... according to videotapes the two killers made in the weeks before America's most deadly high-school shooting, they also shared an intense hostility toward Christianity. Their anti-Christian comments did not appear in the controversial 20-page Time magazine cover story in December that reignited debate about the massacre.
"What would Jesus do?" asks Klebold, yelling and making faces at the camera. "What would I do?" Then he points an imaginary shotgun at the camera, takes aim, and says, "Boosh!"
"Yeah, 'I love Jesus. I love Jesus.' Shut the f—up," Harris says on the same tape, made on March 15.
"Go Romans," Harris says later. "Thank God they crucified that a—hole." Then the two teenagers both chant, "Go Romans! Go Romans! Yeah! Whoo!"
Klebold, who reportedly had a crush on Christian student Rachel Scott, singles her out for particular disdain, calling her a "godly whore" and a "stuck-up little b—."
Darrell Scott, who says his daughter Rachel was the only victim singled out in the tapes, believes the killers felt a deep antipathy for the things of God: "There seemed to be an extra element of hatred and vengeance there."
As the American Enterprise Magazine put it, Columbine represents the Culture War taking a violent turn, with evangelical Christians in the crosshairs. Yet the mainstream media doesn't want us to know.
That word means "fear of Christ." Another word is needed to connote hatred of Christ and of Christians.
Of course, most of these are also driven by their master, the devil, who urges them on to murder others and self. He is, after all, a murderer from the beginning himself. His agenda is to kill the body and soul of as many as possible. Clearly, he would be quite pleased with the Columbine effort - except that the testimony of Rachel and her father serve to bring many more into the Kingdom.
Commu-Nazi.
Because they approved of it.
In an April 20, 1998, journal entry - precisely one year before the tragedy - [Rachel] Scott wrote: "I have no more personal friends at school. But you know what? I am not going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus, I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put into me. If I have to sacrifice everything I will. I will take it." In their pre-rampage videotapes, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold discussed - in their litany of hate - how they wanted to start a "religious war" and mocked a girl named Rachel who had shared her Christian faith. In audio tapes aired on CNN, and transcripts released by parents, Klebold said: "Stuck-up little b----, you f------ little Christianity, godly little w----." Harris: "Yeah, 'I love Jesus, I love Jesus.'... Shut the f--- up." Klebold: "What would Jesus do? What would I DO? (Makes shotgun sound at camera)" "All of this just exploded on us. Columbine has become the Pearl Harbor of the culture wars."
I beg to differ. Although there was coverage of the fact that Cassie and Rachel were Christians, the mainstream media has been largely silent on the explicit anti-christian ranting of the killers in their video. If they'd been ranting against homosexuals or Moslems, everybody in the country would know about it, because the media would broadcast it 24/7. But the antichristian statements have been covered up.
Darrell Scott, who says his daughter Rachel was the only victim singled out in the tapes, believes the killers felt a deep antipathy for the things of God: "There seemed to be an extra element of hatred and vengeance there."
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He killed her because he had a crush on her and she wasn't responding--unrequited love, one of the oldest themes from tragedy (I'm sure there's some of that in at least one of Shakespeare's plays). It had nothing to do with her being a Christian.
That word means "fear of Christ." Another word is needed to connote hatred of Christ and of Christians.
Just so. It is not a abnormal fear or phobia of Christ or things Christian that is on display here, though a fear of the possibility of Christian theology's beliefs about the afterlife and consequences there for actions in this world may play a part. But it is more accurately a hatred or loathing for Christ and his followers noted, and so the word you'd be looking for would be Christomisophia.
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That's a wild statement, considering the hatred he specifically spewed about her Christian witnessing. ("I love Jesus," he sarcastically said, mimicking her. And the hatred he spewed about Jesus Himself -- saying that it was good that the Romans crucified him.
It takes a lot of reverse and upsidedown thinking to say that a killing of a christian girl by an openly and loudly antichristian bigot "had nothing to do with her being a Christian."
Reminds me of deniers who said Hitler's persecution of the Jews had nothing to do with their religious or ethnicity.
Klebold said: "Stuck-up little b----, you f------ little Christianity, godly little w----." Harris: "Yeah, 'I love Jesus, I love Jesus.'... Shut the f--- up." Klebold: "What would Jesus do? What would I DO? (Makes shotgun sound at camera)"
You're either blind or in deep denial.
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